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In secure multiparty computation, mutually distrusting users in a network want to collaborate to compute functions of data which is distributed among the users. The users should not learn any additional information about the data of others…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Deepesh Data , Bikash Kumar Dey , Manoj Mishra , Vinod M. Prabhakaran

With the development of sensor network, mobile computing, and web applications, data are now collected from many distributed sources to form big datasets. Such datasets can be hosted in the cloud to achieve economical processing. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-02-25 James Powers , Keke Chen

Fueled by its successful commercialization, the recommender system (RS) has gained widespread attention. However, as the training data fed into the RS models are often highly sensitive, it ultimately leads to severe privacy concerns,…

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Distributed computing enables large-scale computation tasks to be processed over multiple workers in parallel. However, the randomness of communication and computation delays across workers causes the straggler effect, which may degrade the…

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We consider the basic bidirectional relaying problem, in which two users in a wireless network wish to exchange messages through an intermediate relay node. In the compute-and-forward strategy, the relay computes a function of the two…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Shashank Vatedka , Navin Kashyap , Andrew Thangaraj

This paper addresses the gradient coding and coded matrix multiplication problems in distributed optimization and coded computing. We present a numerically stable binary coding method which overcomes the drawbacks of the \textit{Fractional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Neophytos Charalambides , Hessam Mahdavifar , Alfred O. Hero

We consider the problem of designing rateless coded private distributed matrix-matrix multiplication. A master server owns two private matrices $\mathbf{A}$ and $\mathbf{B}$ and wants to hire worker nodes to help compute the multiplication.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Rawad Bitar , Marvin Xhemrishi , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

Submodular function maximization is a critical building block for diverse tasks, such as document summarization, sensor placement, and image segmentation. Yet its practical utility is often limit by the $O(knd^2)$ computational bottleneck.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Boyu Liu , Lianke Qin , Zhao Song , Yitan Wang , Jiale Zhao

We consider a private distributed multiplication problem involving N computation nodes and T colluding nodes. Shamir's secret sharing algorithm provides perfect information-theoretic privacy, while requiring an honest majority, i.e., N \ge…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Haoyang Hu , Viveck R. Cadambe

Building on the previous work of Lee et al. and Ferdinand et al. on coded computation, we propose a sequential approximation framework for solving optimization problems in a distributed manner. In a distributed computation system, latency…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-26 Jingge Zhu , Ye Pu , Vipul Gupta , Claire Tomlin , Kannan Ramchandran

Secure two-party scalar product (S2SP) is a promising research area within secure multiparty computation (SMC), which can solve a range of SMC problems, such as intrusion detection, data analysis, and geometric computations. However,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-14 Wen-Jie Liu , Zi-Xian Li

We consider the setting of a master server who possesses confidential data (genomic, medical data, etc.) and wants to run intensive computations on it, as part of a machine learning algorithm for example. The master wants to distribute…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Rawad Bitar , Parimal Parag , Salim El Rouayheb

We study matrix-matrix multiplication of two matrices, $A$ and $B$, each of size $n \times n$. This operation results in a matrix $C$ of size $n\times n$. Our goal is to produce $C$ as efficiently as possible given a cache: a 1-D limited…

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Privacy-preserving techniques for distributed computation have been proposed recently as a promising framework in collaborative inter-domain network monitoring. Several different approaches exist to solve such class of problems, e.g.,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-01-31 Fabio Ricciato , Martin Burkhart

Scientific collaborations benefit from collaborative learning of distributed sources, but remain difficult to achieve when data are sensitive. In recent years, privacy preserving techniques have been widely studied to analyze distributed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Guanhong Miao , A. Adam Ding , Samuel S. Wu

The introduction of the new multi-user linearly-separable distributed computing framework, has recently revealed how a parallel treatment of users can yield large parallelization gains with relatively low computation and communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Amir Masoud Jafarpisheh , Ali Khalesi , Petros Elia

Privacy preservation in distributed computations is an important subject as digitization and new technologies enable collection and storage of vast amounts of data, including private data belonging to individuals. To this end, there is a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Katrine Tjell , Rafael Wisniewski

In this paper, due to the important value in practical applications, we consider the coded distributed matrix multiplication problem of computing $AA^\top$ in a distributed computing system with $N$ worker nodes and a master node, where the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Jingke Xu , Yaqian Zhang , Libo Wang

Many important applications across science, data analytics, and AI workloads depend on distributed matrix multiplication. Prior work has developed a large array of algorithms suitable for different problem sizes and partitionings including…

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